Jin-Kyu Jung participate in the panel at 2022 Edge of Amazing conference

IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a discussant in the “Go Fund Us? What Crowdfunding Means For the Future of Healthcare Access” workshop session in 2022 Edge of Amazing conference. He discussed how much health inequalities are intersected with social and spatial inequities, and/or how social and spatial inequities are reflected/represented in the digital crowdfunding platform like GoFundMe.

He demonstrates the ‘doing’ of a critical and creative GIS and geovisualization in mapping health inequalities, and how it can constitute the means for, and be part of, social transformation, confronting/contesting social, spatial, digital, and health inequality in the era of Big Data, data spectacle, data shadows, and data redlining and data colonialism.